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The meeting between the leaders of the world's two largest economies was overshadowed by a rapidly escalating crisis in Syria after Trump ordered cruise missile strikes in response to the deadly chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun.

The Swedish news agency TT reported that the brewery company Spendrups, which owns the truck used in the attack, said the truck had been hijacked earlier in the day. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner offered condolences and said Washington was ready to provide any help it could to investigate "this brutal and senseless attack".

The Syrian government has strongly denied launching such an attack. With US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson due in Moscow next week, the Kremlin called the US strike a "gross. President Reuven Rivlin said the USA strike on Syria was an "appropriate response" to the "unthinkable brutality" of the chemical attack. The Damascus government said the US strike was "rash" and an act of "flagrant aggression", but did not expect a bigger escalation.

The United States is "exploring everything" to broker a Middle East peace settlement, and her own forceful defense of Israel at the United Nations does not undermine American leverage, the usa ambassador to the world body said Monday. On the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the positions expressed by the new administration, Haley said "we don't want to do anything that is going to hurt our businesses".

S&P also downgraded South Africa's seven banks foreign currency ratings to junk status on Thursday. While the main metros including Johannesburg, Pretoria , Durban and Cape Town are expecting the largest turn out, its clear from social media that there are dozens of smaller groups around the country that have joined in protest.

Some Israeli media reported that the casualties were soldiers but the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit said it can not confirm this information. Israeli government development of settlements in the West Bank has been a focus of friction with Palestinians and contributed to the breakdown of peace talks.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping , with their wives, first lady Melania Trump and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan are seated during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday in Palm Beach, Fla . The only other foreign leader to be hosted at Mar-a-Lago during Trump's presidency so far is Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a close USA ally. The strike diverted global attention away from the summit, in which the two leaders are expected to discuss North Koreas nuclear ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping poses for a photo with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after arriving in Florida on April 6, 2017. Speaking to reporters after greeting Xi at the airport, Tillerson said the US side would press the Chinese delegation to "find ways to exercise influence on North Korea's actions to dismantle their nuclear weapons and their missile technology program".

House Republicans just want to be able to say that they were able to pass something, anything , and if it doesn't conform with Senate rules, so be it-as long as it conforms to what their constituents want. "This brings us closer to the final agreement that we all want to achieve, " Ryan said, later adding that it was "a step in the right direction". "I'm not going to get into the particular details of the conversations that are going on", he said.

The beef sector described the agreement as a "huge win", saying South American countries have been squeezing Australian processors out of the frozen market in China. Beijing's move to maintain strong ties with Canberra comes as the worldwide community attempts to contend with US President Donald Trump's erratic presence on the global stage.

One of Flynn's lawyers, Robert K. Kelner, said they have had discussions with committee staff members, but Flynn has not been contacted directly. Clinton Watts, a security consultant and former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, told Sen.

Rep. Adam Schiff , the top Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, says he is treating that request with a healthy dose of skepticism. The California Democrat said the president is just trying to divert attention from the probes in the House and Senate and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump associates helped that effort.

Mosul, 400 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, has been under IS control since June 2014, when government forces abandoned their posts and fled, enabling IS militants to take control of parts of Iraq's northern and western regions. ERBIL , Iraq Two Iraqi army pilots were killed on Thursday when their helicopter was shot down over the city of Mosul by Islamic State , according to a military statement.

Xi said the delegations covered important topics and have established a good friendship and working relationship. We will work towards promoting this friendly relationship, which will benefit China, the United States and their peoples. Xi apparently got something out of dinner, though. Trump accepted Xi's invitation to visit China later this year, Xinhua news agency cited officials as saying yesterday.

The prosecution and defense met with Judge Jeffrey Locke and mostly discussed trial logistics. Via the Associated Press , the jury in the double-murder trial against Hernandez will commence deliberations on Friday . Hernandez, now 27, grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and played for the Patriots from 2010 to 2012. He said Hernandez became enraged because he saw it as a sign of disrespect.

Since the crash took place in Arizona , Uber got a speedy clearance compared to California, which has stricter rules governing autonomous vehicles . "The vehicles collided causing the autonomous vehicle to roll onto it's side". Uber has put its fleet of self-driving cars on public roads in select cities across the country to conduct various tests as it seeks to develop this technology and play a big role in the future of transportation.

The firing was made as South Korean and USA troops were conducting their springtime drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. Military officials in the United States and South Korea had initially said assessments indicated it had been a KN-15 medium-range ballistic missile, the same kind North Korea test-launched in February.

Trump, for his part, has been talking tough on North Korea ahead of his meeting with the Chinese president at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. North Korea fired an apparent ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's military said on Wednesday.

Broadcaster SVT said at least five people were killed in the attack while Swedish radio reported three dead, but police could not immediately confirm those reports . "It is really hard to detect someone who is going to drive a truck into a crowd of people", Security expert Robert Strang told Inside Edition. A witness told the paper: "I went to the main street when a big truck came out of nowhere".

Russian President Vladimir Putin wished French far-right leader Marine Le Pen "good luck" for next month's presidential election, a close aide to the National Front candidate said after the two met in the Kremlin on Friday. Le Pen's visit comes weeks before the first round of French presidential elections on April 23, although the right-wing leader said her visit had nothing to do with attracting votes.

But because he has to respond as part of this House ethics process to these charges that he might have acted inappropriately or been too close to the Trump White House, they can't have that clouding whatever the committee does next on this investigation.

Absolutely nothing! But we have developed a friendship. North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the U.S-China trade imbalance as well as other points of tension between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are being overshadowed by the USA missile strikes on Syria.

According to the State Police department's Facebook page, Trooper II Christopher Gesualdo arrived to the scene shortly after the woman's driver and friend called 911 for assistance in the impending birth. Olivia Cummings, of Scotch Plains, says that she was getting her 5-year-old son ready for school Wednesday morning when her water broke. Summit Officer Keith Kwiatek also assisted and helped render aid before paramedics arrived, police said.

Following the latest launch, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said: "North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile". Read the whole story from The Washington Post . "If we push the button, the bombs will be fired and reduce the U.S.to ashes", an editorial in the ruling Workers' Party newspaper the Rodong Sinmun said on Wednesday.

Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Union leader also addressed the crowd and called for Zuma's ouster. Police had to fire rubber bullets several times at pockets of protesters to prevent them from moving toward a group of Democratic Alliance members who were marching against Zuma elsewhere in the city.

After the outing, Paul said that "I think the sides are getting closer and closer together, and I remain very optimistic that we will get Obamacare repealed ". Pence will meet again Tuesday night with some House Republicans - including the chairmen of the Freedom Caucus, the Tuesday Group and the Republican Study Committee, as well as the chairmen of some House committees - on Capitol Hill.

The official noted that up to 20 Syrian aircraft were destroyed in Thursday's airstrikes but added that the missiles did not no target every aircraft at the base and that the runway was untouched. "Such measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria. and will complicate the situation in Syria and the region", spokesperson Bahram Qasemi said. Damascus has categorically denied carrying out a chemical attack.

Asked by Chinese Television about how Australia should position its relations with China relative to the United States, Mr Turnbull said Australia had "a staunch, strong ally in Washington, a good friend in Washington, and we have a very good friend in Beijing".

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has also described the American offensive as an "act of aggression", comparing it to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Trump has taken out fighter jets and runways from an air force that would otherwise have been bombing IS. The officials all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations and intelligence matters.

Police in Norway's largest cities and at Oslo's airport will carry weapons until further notice following the attack. Although there was initial confusion on the number of victims, police told reporters in the evening that four people had been killed and 15 were wounded, nine of them seriously.

United States president Donald Trump has called Vladimir Putin to offer condolences over the St Petersburg tube bombing. "Each of our nations is a potential target for terrorist attacks". A suicide bomber set off an explosive device Monday afternoon on a train moving from Tekhnologichesky Institute towards Sennaya Ploshchad station on Line 2 (Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya) of the St.

The U.S. military carried out a missile strike Thursday evening on a Syrian airbase housing the aircraft that dropped the chemical weapons on innocent civilians in violation of global restrictions. Beijing-based military expert Zhou Chenming said the United States was unable to start a conflict with the North considering its involvement in the Middle East and limited capabilities.

In January Le Pen visited Trump s headquarters but left without meeting the U.S. president-elect or any of his staff. En Marche!, the party of Le Pen's center-left rival Emmanuel Macron, recently accused Russian Federation of hacking campaign computers, which the Kremlin labeled " absurd ".

Bannon originally served on the committee as a check against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn before Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a top White House official told NBC News. Trump, back dating to the presidential campaign, as he is thought to be one of the main pillars/architects of his foreign policy. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stepped aside from the committee's probe Thursday, less than 24 hours after the demotion of Bannon, an action that seems to ...

U.S. missiles targeted Syrian forces Friday in response to a suspected chemical attack that killed up to 86 people earlier this week. But it remains unclear why President Bashar al-Assad's government would have ordered the strike - and to what extent his inner circle was involved.

His resolution would have limited authorization to three years, with no geographic restrictions for US forces. A Syrian official tells The Associated Press that the USA missile attack that hit a number of military targets in central Syria has left a number of dead and wounded.

A MI congressman said President Donald Trump's ordering of strikes against Syria was appropriate but the President should come to congress for any other military reaction. US presidents have taken sporadic military action without Congress' approval for decades now, and the current law has become muddled by an ongoing authorization allowing the president to take military actions against terrorism.

He added: "The game at the Etihad was a key point in our season in the Premier League". City remain fourth, 14 points below Chelsea , and with Arsenal and Manchester United hot on their heels - both four points back with a game in hand - Guardiola knows they face a scrap for a top-four finish.

The mounted frustration against the President sparked with the last Cabinet reshuffle, in which he sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan . "This afternoon's downgrade by Fitch Ratings of both South Africa's foreign and local currency credit ratings to "junk status" is a devastating blow to our economy", he said in a statement.

Before Thursday's dinner, Trump said he and Xi already had had a long discussion and had "developed a friendship", and then joked , "I have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing". US media, at least, was far more interested in the Syria story than the carefully-crafted summit; after brief comments to the press by Trump, reporters could be heard shouting out questions about the missile strikes before Xi was able to speak his piece.

The Port of Vancouver announced Deltaport closed around 2 p.m. because of the windy weather. "We're looking at almost 60 km/h gusts this afternoon, possibly up to 80 near the water". A special weather statement was issued for Vancouver, Howe Sound, the Sunshine Coast, Whistler and many parts of Vancouver Island. "Be prepared to adjust your driving with changing road conditions due to high winds", the warning reads.

Three North Koreans have been allowed to leave Malaysia, Malaysia's chief of police said . Investigators say Kim Jong Nam, who was in his 40s, was poisoned at the Kuala Lumpur airport by two young women wielding VX nerve agent , a banned chemical weapon.

Turnbull called on Russian Federation to do more to ensure peace in Syria. Even as Trump advisers insisted that Thursday night's USA missile strike did not mark a significant shift in American policy, he called on other nations to help "end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria".

Mikael Anttila, a 49-year-old portfolio manager at bank SEB, told the Press Association he saw several hundred people gathered on the street close to the shop, before they all started running "suddenly. The scene after a truck crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on April 7, 2017 . According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, a man in custody was stopped for unspecified suspicious demeanor.

Bloody tyre tracks on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) showed where the beer truck had passed. - Swedish police said Friday that the death toll from an apparent terror attack involving a truck plowing into a downtown Stockholm store remained unclear.

Earlier Friday, a large beer truck crashed into an upscale department store in central Stockholm in what Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called a terror attack. The beer company's truck driver was not injured, he said. All government offices were locked down and the metro closed following the incident. People were urged to avoid central Stockholm.

Early on Friday morning, the U.S. military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat air field in response to a suspected chemical attack this week that has been widely blamed on the Damascus regime. This time, Europe seems ready to strike again. Following a 2013 chemical weapon attack in Syria's East Ghouta, Syria joined the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Canadian officials say the federal government will have more to say today about an American missile attack on Syria in retaliation for this week's chemical weapons attack which killed at least 80 people. "AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA - IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!", he wrote.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said, "We stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the people of Sweden". Local media reported that the truck was hijacked as it made a delivery nearby. According to eyewitness Veronica Durango, the driver "put his foot on the gas and ran through the crowd". A witness told Aftonbladet that the truck came "out of nowhere".